AAWWEESSOOMEE
I'd like to start off by stating that my rating is how worth while it is to read. If I was rating it on my affinity with what’s within the book then it would have received 0 stars.
As a Scot living in Germany I decided that I wanted an insight into the thinking of the man that was responsible for so much tragedy, and while the book can be very repetitive and dull in places. It does offer a good insight into his (crazy) thinking. The thing that most surprised me was that he wasn’t raised in an anti-Semitic environment, and that instead his anti-Semitism grew as he “matured”. He appears to have chosen this as the target for all his hate and places the responsibility of all the worlds’ woes at Jewish feet.
It is also interesting to hear him talk about the best strategy for propaganda and how targeting “less intelligent” people is the best tactic. I wonder if people would have been so quick to follow him if they realised that he was trying to dumb things down because he thought they were too stupid.
However, perhaps the most important lesson to take away from the book is how thin the line if between patriotism and Hitler’s “Nationalism”.
As a Scot living in Germany I decided that I wanted an insight into the thinking of the man that was responsible for so much tragedy, and while the book can be very repetitive and dull in places. It does offer a good insight into his (crazy) thinking. The thing that most surprised me was that he wasn’t raised in an anti-Semitic environment, and that instead his anti-Semitism grew as he “matured”. He appears to have chosen this as the target for all his hate and places the responsibility of all the worlds’ woes at Jewish feet.
It is also interesting to hear him talk about the best strategy for propaganda and how targeting “less intelligent” people is the best tactic. I wonder if people would have been so quick to follow him if they realised that he was trying to dumb things down because he thought they were too stupid.
However, perhaps the most important lesson to take away from the book is how thin the line if between patriotism and Hitler’s “Nationalism”.
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